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by wynand 17y ago
Perhaps a DNS attack? Try 194.203.155.123/article/mg20427391.400-beware-humans-bearing-gifts.html
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by wynand 17y ago
The link must have been fixed in the meantime - I didn't have any trouble.
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by wynand 17y ago
Not me. Well, I'm a post-grad and my Ph.D. is quite mathsy. That doesn't make me a mathematician (I still believe that the title should be earned and I definitely have not yet earned it), but at least I've done some mathematics. Anyway, I a
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by wynand 17y ago
I strongly disagree. "Manager" is short for something longer like "Project Manager". It grates on my nerves when someone talks about their "boss", because that's exactly what a manager is not (although many happily exercise power that's not
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by wynand 17y ago
One thing I would like to know: why hasn't anyone else duplicated CPAN? I don't know Perl, but I've had to pull things from CPAN to make a Perl script work and I was impressed. At the moment I'm running parallel Python code on many differen
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by wynand 17y ago
That doesn't let you off the hook. You could say about anything "show me one place where x has value". In such a position, you'd always be able to dispute any point raised. If you really believe that there is nothing of value in the Tractat
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by wynand 17y ago
> Or want to cite a fruitful philosophical problem Wittgenstein did have, to contradict my view? That burden is on you, since you made the original assertion.
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by wynand 17y ago
> Wittgenstein was a terrible person who hit children, hard, on the head: That old bugbear - horrible as he might have been in person, his philosophy is distinct from this side of him. We might as well insinuate that Feynmann's work is
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by wynand 17y ago
I am crunching graph parameters based on data stored in an "input table". A single row computation can take as long as five minutes, because I compute numerous costly parameters each time. My work isn't really that complex, but it takes age
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by wynand 17y ago
"With the job market like it is, Wall Street doesn't need to pay huge bonuses to retain key people." Excuse the trollish appearance of this remark, but it's something that I've been wondering about for a long time... The world to me seems t
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by wynand 17y ago
Actors are decoupled from the means by which they are executed. Scala has a nice system where you can run thousands of event-based actors in a thread pool. It grows the pool as needed (as threads block). See http://www.scala-lang.org/node/
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by wynand 17y ago
Though I haven't programmed in Qi (which runs atop a Common Lisp environment), I have read up about its extensible type system. It looks powerful and might be useful for what you're doing.
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by wynand 17y ago
>> I would argue that they are frequently more frugal so the money is locked away from the economy. The money is typically locked away in the country where they're residing. That money can work as investment money. You're also forg
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by wynand 17y ago
That is exactly why I want to become an entrepreneur. I just seem to do badly in a corporate environment.
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by wynand 17y ago
The parent is right about the copy elision part ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_value_optimization ). GCC definitely performs this and I'm sure that it's true of other widely used C++ compilers. I also don't know what yosefk means whe
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by wynand 17y ago
I strongly disagree (as a post-grad working on Graph Theory). Mathematics has never abandoned Graph Theory and no Graph Theoretician I've met would ever consider Graph Theory to be a part of Computer Science. I take issue with the "actuall
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by wynand 17y ago
The unbearable lightness of being - Milan Kundera Candide - Voltaire
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by wynand 17y ago
I'll join the chorus and say that this is great stuff, jacquesm. Estimation is one thing that makes me very nervous to the point of not wanting to start my own thing. I have always underestimated things (and once it got very bad when I was
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by wynand 17y ago
Live in Rotterdam & work in Delft. Let me know if you end up in the Netherlands.
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by wynand 17y ago
I've been using Back In Time for some time now. It works well and has been very stable. I thought it would choke when my external backup drive was plugged out, but it handles such circumstances well. It creates hard links (just like Apple's
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by wynand 17y ago
Perhaps, although I don't think that to be the case here. For me, the _why persona was a little beacon that radiated the message: "you can make cool stuff and have fun regardless of your circumstances". That's a nice contrast to the drearin
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by wynand 17y ago
I contributed a bit to Apertium (a machine translation system).
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by wynand 17y ago
Since there are so many Dutchies here, a meeting in Utrecht would be cool (since Utrecht is reasonably central). Any Utrechters have any suggestions?
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by wynand 17y ago
Rotterdam, but I work in Delft.
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by wynand 17y ago
Brave New World doesn't suggest that this kind of engineering was successful in terms of making people better, only that it led to a controllable world in which happiness took precedence over truth. A country that achieves what is described
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by wynand 17y ago
I agree with your sentiment, and although I generally agree with the parent, I also disagree with the statement that "[t]hey where hired under the same standards as you". Few companies look for programming talent and I've seen this being ha
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by wynand 17y ago
There was a comment here about TCL's VFS, which the author removed. I thought it was an excellent pointer, since TCL's system seems very cool. His link was: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-sc12.html?...
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by wynand 17y ago
KIO is awesome, but I'm looking for something that'll run anywhere, without too many dependencies. If I see something I really like here, I might want to port it to Python at some point.
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by wynand 17y ago
In one sense I really liked this, though I wish it could have done without "bitch" and "faggot" strewn throughout. I used to be afraid of socializing, managing to defer the painful learning process by about 5 years. I thought I could avoid
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by wynand 17y ago
I once sent the director of a company where I worked an article about working from home (the article mentioned how IBM does this) and got a snotty reply. He also refused to allow me to take unpaid leave. It's amazing how some managers think

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